Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Agrobiodiversity is crops, livestock, foodways, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives …
A recent press release from WWF notes that Russia is gazetting “9 new nature reserves and 13 national parks covering a total area of over 3.8 million ha by 2020”. That’s an area almost the size of Switzerland and almost 3 per cent of Russia’s total area.
Bravo.
But they won’t protect 10 hectares of irreplaceable genebank near St Petersburg?
GMAFB!
Matt welcomes the new word on cassava domestication:
Wow, thanks for that post! I never would have guessed bitterness would be important. It’s a good reminder for all of us not to get too ahead of ourselves in “fixing” other peoples ag problems.
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